Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Twin Cities Area
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Red Wing Iron Works
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Almelund Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Cobden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Wasioja
Florence Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moving Old Hibbing
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City